Essays about: "Highly Skilled Migrant"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Highly Skilled Migrant.

  1. 1. Social Capital Theory and Highly-Skilled Female Migrants in the Swedish Workplace : A Qualitative Analysis

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Chloe Barbarich; [2023]
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    Abstract : Sweden continues to prioritise highly-skilled migration while restricting low-skilled migration, idealising the highly-skilled migrant as being easier to integrate into the labour market and into Swedish society at large. This project answers to these assumptions by investigating the lived experiences of highly-skilled female migrants in Sweden through the lens of social capital theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. VFR Leisure Experiences of Italians and Chinese in Sweden  : A New Study Approach to Migrants’ Personal Networks Influence on Place Participation During (im)mobility Times

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Sara Fiorella Viviana Licata; [2022]
    Keywords : Highly skilled migrants; Chinese; Italians; Sweden; Personal networks; Immobility; VFR tourism; Place participation; Multicultural societies;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the Visit Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism experiences of highly skilled first-generation Italians and Chinese in Sweden. It focuses on personal networks influence on migrant hosts’ interaction and participation in the place and how the Covid-19 global immobility has changed the dynamics and the feelings towards the place. READ MORE

  4. 3. Doing the dishes was never fun abroad! : Experiences of migrant dishwashers in tourism and hospitality sector

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism

    Author : Ritesh Bhatt; [2022]
    Keywords : Green card holder; Green card scheme GCS ; Dishwashing employee; Tourism Labour; Dishwashing employee; Restaurants; highly skilled migrants; Immigrants;

    Abstract : This thesis is at the intersection of migration and labour in tourism and the hospitality sector. Empirically, this study explores the experiences of well-trained migrant dishwashing employees (DE) in restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark and aims to understand their motivation for migration. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Labour-market Experiences of Skilled African Women in Sweden : The Case of Kenyan Women

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Fortune Chanelle Mugororoka; [2020]
    Keywords : Labor market segmentation; migrant women; uncertainty; precarious work; highly skilled; intersectionality; dualism.;

    Abstract : The study sought to understand the labour-market experiences of Kenyan women living in Swedenfrom a precarity standpoint. Specifically, from the point of view of uncertainty and vulnerability ofAfrican migrants workers in the labor market. READ MORE

  6. 5. Dynamics of migration, consumption and gender: The case of Ukrainian migrant women in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Viktoriia Zinchuk; [2018]
    Keywords : skilled migration; gender; consumption; practices.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How do practices of migration, consumption and gender mutually shape each other in contemporary society? In this thesis, I am trying to partly address some aspects of this question by examining the consumption practices of Ukrainian migrant mothers in Sweden. Drawing on conceptual frames of gendered geographies of power and employing a practice theory as a meta-theoretical approach, I conducted fourteen semi-structured open-ended interviews with Ukrainian migrants. READ MORE